
Unfortunately, the lack of online support means your opportunities to indulge in it will be limited. The multiplayer component is just as delightful as it was back in the day - perhaps even more so, thanks to the ability to use a picture of your own invention as your avatar. Not to mention that it's tough to keep your head in the right spot for the 3D effect to take hold when you're wildly twisting and turning the handheld. Star Fox's unique design binds flying and aiming to a single input a method which requires a level of precision that the gyroscope doesn't provide.


The sound has also received an overhaul thanks to 14 years of hardware innovation music and teammate messages no longer sound like they're being emitted from the inside of an oil drum.Ī 3DS mode allows the player to control their ship using the gyroscope, but I rarely found occasion for this control scheme to be practical. The deep edges of space and remote alien worlds look about as pretty as anything else we've seen on the console. Much like Ocarina, the graphics haven't just been given a meager spit-shine Nintendo and Q-Games have lovingly redrawn nearly every texture in the game. What's new this time around? The most evident and, conveniently, most beneficial addition to the title is its newfound depth and overall loveliness. Much like Ocarina of Time 3D before it, Star Fox 64 3D is banking on a single bulletpoint to earn your purchase: You've never seen that content quite like this.%Gallery-128694% Star Fox has no lack of content, but if you owned the Nintendo 64 original and thoroughly explored its brief and branching campaign back in 1997, you've probably seen that content plenty of times before. Moving forward through the sky as objects and other pilots move towards, around and behind you looks invariably dope with the 3D slider turned on this law is no less incontrovertible in the system's latest first-party remake: Star Fox 64 3D.īut games can't live on dopeness alone - they need meat on their bones as well. If you've spent any time with the Nintendo 3DS - especially if that time was spent with the handheld's aeronautical launch title, Pilotwings Resort - you're probably aware that flying games are right in this handheld's wheelhouse.
